Sunday Night Painting Session

 More Elves

I was thinking that these elves would look the part for a Norse Saga warband. The elf army continues to grow slowly. But it is growing 

Ruffians watch out!

Finished off Frodo the other day and I have just got round to photographing him. Two more figures from the Oldhammer Shire hobbits set.

My go-to brushes for general work.

These are the Daley-Rowney  brushes - two for a £1 from the Poundshop that I use for most of the heavy lifting when it comes to general painting. Both of which I think have survived longer than normal after being cleaned regularly with the brush cleaner.  I have got into the habit of cleaning the brushes after each painting session. And while most of the time the soap doesn't look particularly dirty after the brush is cleaned. It does seem to be helping the brushes last. So, I will consider this to a good practice to continue. 

Still vegan. 

Rob 

An Elf's Best Friend (4pts)

 Sometimes I like to Paint Easy Stuff

I think the title says it all.  First of the wolf hounds from Alternative Armies for the elven animal handler. 

The AA Wolf hound alongside the
Bad Squiddo Swedish Vallhund

Rob

Wild Elves March Onwards (43pts)

 The Wood Elf Army Grows

After a unexpected couple of free hours this afternoon. I managed to finish off the next four wood elves bringing the total to ten plus a tree man (Greater forest spirit). 

The standard bearer surrounded by her Spearguard

The Winter Thorns Archers

Alternative Armies, Citadel*, Grenadier (EM4), Celtos (Brigade) & Marauder?

*One of the classic Skarloc wood elf archers. A few more to follow.  

The Alternative Armies figure really standards out as a bit different. Sculpted in a very different (alternative?) style but still a nice figure. From their dungeon adventurers range. 

I think the elf on the right is an old Marauder figure and probably one of my favourite sculpts from this current lot. With some nice little details such as carvings on the front of the bow and glove for bow string hand. 

I am an amateur archer and so a padded glove is definitely needed for holding the bow string. And with the longbows carried by these elves the bow string would be cutting deep into the fingers whilst drawing the bow to full draw. 

Skirmish against Vordak 

Rob 

Wood Elf Standard Bearer (20pts)

 First of the Warmonger Elves

This why I can't do the Old World Army Challenge (OWAC) as I only managed to paint five elves last month will probably be the same this month. But I really enjoyed painting the Standard bearer for the unit of Elf spears.  These Warmonger elves have a wild aesthetic which suits the wild elf theme for my wood elf army.  

Also finally finished off some of the skulls to add to the bases. 

Rob 

Beachhead 2024

 Looking from Afar

I couldn't make Beachhead this year but a friend of mine managed to send a couple of pictures. 

For the Emperor

Geoff's fun looking Woods game

The new Oakbound Hobgoblins

Rob 

Battles for Wargamers - 1983

 Fast Forward to the Future of Wargaming

The Old Ral Partha figures still stand up today. 

This magazine was one of those turning point moments. As I turned towards 'real' wargaming. The magazine was full of great articles but it was the Fantasy Wargaming article by John Treadaway that really caught my eye (along with the free Saxon army). 

A lot of the figures featured in the article are still available from Ral Partha (from the their Legacy range) and from Essex miniatures. So I decided to get the featured Ral Partha figures. I think detail is extraordinary and it is only really the 25mm scale that marks them out as different.

One of those random thoughts is that I have always thought that most of the human sized figures on the 20mm bases always looked cramped when ranked up for Warhammer. But when the 1st edition of Warhammer was released the 25mm miniatures were the norm. And these 25mm figures look perfectly ok on the 20mm bases. So, I suppose they didn't revise the base sizes when Citadel moved from 25mm to 28mm as the standard sized human figure. 

At the time getting a free cut out Saxon army  from Standard games was a real game changer. I think of this as my first proper wargaming army  and I went on to get the Norman army as well.  Unfortunately the Normans (& the original Saxons from the first magazine) were lost to time and I haven't been able to find any copies of the Normans on the internet. Once I can get my printer working again I will print  and cut out a few of the Saxons from the second magazine. I believe they were designed by Gary Chalk. 

I managed to get a second copy of this magazine at B&B a few years ago with the Saxon army still intact. 

On the paint bench

Rob